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Panic in the Streets (Fox Film Noir) (Dual-layered DVD)
- Starring: Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes
- Director: Elia Kazan
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Filmed entirely on location in New Orleans, Panic in the Streets stars Richard Widmark as Dr. Clinton Reed, a physician from the U.S. Health Service who must race against time to stop a plague. The carrier was an illegal alien, murdered by criminals Jack Palance and Zero Mostel. When local officials note the strange condition of the corpse, they fear that the germs will spread to epidemic proportions, and thus summon Reed to wrest control of the situation. At first facing opposition from rule-bound police captain Paul Douglas, Widmark is finally able to work hand-in-glove with Douglas in tracking down Palance and Mostel, who have themselves become plague carriers. Many of the actors in Panic in the Streets are local nonprofessionals, selected by director Elia Kazan because of their "rightness" within the framework of the story; the rest of the cast is peopled by such film veterans as Barbara Bel Geddes, Tommy Cook, Emile Meyer and H.T. Tsiang. Widmark's son is played by an uncredited Tommy Rettig, four years before he starred on the Lassie TV series. Though Elia Kazan liked to claim that much of Panic in the Streets was improvised, there was a script, adapted by Richard Murphy and Daniel Fuchs from a story by Edward Anhalt and Edna Anhalt. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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- Genre: Suspense & Thriller
- Category: Chase Movie, Psychological Thriller
- Theme: Plagues and Epidemics, Race Against Time
- Release Date: March 15, 2005
- Rating: NR (Not Rated)Rating Opens in New Window - Questionable for Children
- Studio: 20th Century Fox
- Lead Actors: Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jack Palance, Zero Mostel
- Supporting Actors: Tommy Cook, Tiger Joe Marsh, Dan Riss, Alexis Minotis, Guy Thomajan, Edward Kennedy, H.T. Tsiang, Lewis Charles, Ray Muller, Tommy Rettig, Lenka Peterson, Pat Walshe, Paul Hostetler, Leo Zinser, William Dean, Val Winter, Stanley Reyes, Emile G. Meyer
- Director: Elia Kazan
- Run Time: 1 hr 36 min
- Language: English, Spanish
- Subtitle Language: English, Spanish
- Format: DVD
Additional Information
- DPCI: 246-00-9852
- ASIN: B002IEC5XG
- Catalog #: 11347510
- Item can not be gift wrapped.
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- Estimated Ship Dimensions : 7.56 inches length x 5.48 inches width x 0.58 inches height
- Estimated Ship Weight: 0.23 pound.
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One of director Elia Kazan's favorite movies was this very dark tale about the bubonic plague invading New Orleans. Panic in the Streets featured a mesmerizing performance from Richard Widmark as the doctor called in to investigate a mysterious death who becomes entangled in a sinister plot. Shot in semi-documentary style by the masterful Kazan, the film applies top Hollywood production values to a bizarre original story for which Edward Anhalt and Edna Anhalt won a screenwriting Oscar. Kazan used many non-actors, shot the film entirely on location in New Orleans, and had many of the scenes done with improvised or partly improvised lines. The result is a gripping realism. Among the veterans in the lustrous cast are Barbara Bel Geddes, Zero Mostel, and Jack Palance. Kazan's loose style with actors was innovative for 1950, and he would continue to hone his direction of "method" acting in the next several years with such films as A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, and East of Eden. Michael Betzold, All Movie Guide
